OVERWATCH CHRISTMAS UPDATE IS LIVE ON PS4, XBOX ONE AND PC

The Overwatch Christmas event, Winter Wonderland is now live on PS4, Xbox One and PC.

With it comes plenty of new character skins which you can take a look at in the gallery below and also a fantastic festive themed trailer which you can watch above.

Here's some more info from the team at Blizzard:

"The season of giving (and receiving) is here, and we’re ready to celebrate. From now until January 2, every day is a snow day in Overwatch!

"Unwrap all new holiday-themed loot, take a stroll through the decked halls of Hanamura and King's Row, and put your enemies on ice in our latest brawl: Mei’s Snowball Offensive."

Overwatch Winter Wonderland Christmas Skins and screenshots

Take a look at some new skins and in-game screenshots from the Overwatch Winter Wonderland Christmas DLC update

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OVERWATCH CHRISTMAS EVENT UPDATE: SANTA MEI LEAKED!

Another leak for the Overwatch Christmas event, this time featuring Mei dressed as Santa Claus!

The banner ad featured on gnn.gamer.com.tw was spotted by Overwatch fans on Reddit and user Summon528, who first posted the leak believes the banner says “Overwatch Brawl All new game mode, Mei's Snow fight, Shoot in your face.”

It might suggest a similar winter themed event just like we had Junkenstein’s Revenge and Lucioball earlier in the year.It might not be as fun as killing zombie

What the Brawl might entail at this stage is anyone's guess. It might not be as fun as killing zombie

Another low-quality image is also doing the rounds on Twitter, showing Torbjorn as Santa, Lucio as some sort of Elf, Mei once again as a Mrs Claus and Tracer in a festive green outfit.

Stay tuned for more details as we get it. But no doubt it won't be long now!

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Mei's Snow fight could be the Winter Wonderland brawl?

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Overwatch Winter Wonderland Christmas Update now LIVE on PS4, Xbox One and PC

Ever since Blizzard first announced that the event was coming December 13th the fevered community has been searching for clues as to what it could entail.Since then, the community has been busy looking for clues in the game’s files, social media posts, and any form of official communication they could find that hints at details not yet available. Take for instance the name of the event, which is believed to be Winter Wonderland.

First of all the official Overwatch group on Russian social media site, VK, noticed that the Christmas GIF previously shared on Twitter had the file name: “OW_WinterWonderland_Postcard-Facebook_RU_RU_640x459.gif,” which leads us to believe this new event will be called 'Winter Wonderland'.

Secondly, it's been noticed that a recent update to Blizzard's press site has hinted at a possible trailer coming later today.

The site suggests that Blizzard uploaded a trailer and other assets on December 1, however, these assets are not yet accessible and likely won't be until after the announcement.

Dataminers have also noticed that there are references to a new game mode and a new map in the Overwatch PTR build, but there's been no hard information on what this could entail. Though we suspect something tied to the snowy version of King's Row from the GIF released previously.

Overwatch will announce details of a special PS4, Xbox One and PC Christmas event later today and with it plenty more skins, emotes, themed loot boxes and much more.

The rumoured Overwatch Christmas event was finally revealed last week by Blizzard on their Twitter channel.

Blizzard posted a tweet saying "you're invited" together with a holiday Christmas card in gif form.

The front showed a snowy image of King's Row, and when opened it a message read:

"It's the most wonderful time of the year and we hope you join us for some holiday cheer," and the date, on the inside also mentioned December 13th (today).

No other clues have been provided as to what or when the Christmas event will come to the game.

But as per usual, busy dataminers have been hard at work to uncover plenty of Overwatch secrets.

Dataminers discovered that there are 4 new map files coming to Overwatch.

One of these appears to be a holiday event similar to Junkenstein's Revenge, in addition to at least one Christmas/holiday themed map, which for now we're guessing will be the reimagined King's Row.

The dataminer is unable to determine if there are three, simply because the manner in which it has been coded (though, we'll find out soon enough).

Equally, another interesting tidbit of info unearthed by the datamine is that everyone will be getting a holiday themed spray, voice line and victory pose, just like previously during the Overwatch Halloween event.